Celebrate the ones you love with these Birthday Family Traditions and ideas. Create annual birthday time capsules and see how time has changed your child with these free printable Birthday Interview Questions. 

Birthday Family Traditions

You say it’s your birthday! If 2020 has shown us anything, it is how to slow down the pace of life and enjoy our immediate family. Some of the things that social distancing has instilled in our family is hopefully new family traditions including family birthday celebrations. We all took a hit on celebrating with friends, in a restaurant or traveling to far and distant places. This year we learned to celebration those we love by coming up with family birthday ideas!

We have a list of family birthday traditions, birthday time capsules and even a free printable birthday interview for your kid. Create memories and enjoy experiences over buying gifts with these Birthday Family Traditions!

Enjoy – and happy birthday!

Birthday Family Traditions

Let’s talk about family traditions for the birthday. I have learned (as I have had more kids) to keep it simple but special. While that can sound like an oxymoron, it’s important for us to keep the cost low but celebrate the child. One way we have kept birthdays family focused is by having a birthday celebration with friends, every other year. Then every year, we also have a family celebration. Sometimes, we choose to vacation (even if it’s only a weekend getaway) during the overlap of a birthday to make the child feel extra loved while surrounded by those that love her/him most.

Take a look a these family birthday traditions in our original post idea – Family Birthday Celebrations.

Family Birthday Ideas

• Have a Birthday Breakfast

• Have a “Yes” Day (say yes to everything reasonable)

• Fill a Bedroom with Balloons

• Have a Birthday Scavenger Hunt

• Do Something New

• Visit a Favorite Spot

• Fill the Yard with Birthday Decorations

• Have a Family Game Night (or Day)

• Take a Family Trip

• Have a Drive By Parade

• Use a Birthday Plate and Decorated Birthday Chair

• Have Experiences over Gifts (bowling, amusement park, vacations …)

• Pay It Forward with a Random Act of Kindess

• Add to a Birthday Time Capsule

Pay it Forward on Your Birthday!

One of our favorite family traditions is paying it forward. Use this Pay it Forward Birthday Random Act of Kindess Idea to have your kids give back on their birthday. Stop by the Dollar Tree or event he Dollar Spot of Target and drop off these free printables random acts of kindness notes with a dollar. Reward another child. Kind of like a surprise party favor for a stranger.

Birthday Time Capsule

One way to celebrate your child is to continue a birthday time capsule. You can begin with a first birthday time capsule that you add to every year. This can be smaller box just to represent the first year of life or you can create a large memory box you add to each year. One idea is to go through art work, photographs, saved school work, special moments and see what you want to keep or toss. This is a quick and easy way to declutter as well as save what is important in a yearly time capsule.

What To Include in a Birthday Time Capsule

• Newspaper of the Day

• Birthday Party Favors and/or Decorations

• Money Printed that Year

• Artwork

• Birthday Invitation

• Birthday Cards for Relatives and Friends

• Letters to My Daughter or Letters to My Son

• Birthday Photos

• Handprint Art (or Footprint)

• A Message from a Sibling

• Yearly facts: Top songs, price of gas, current trends, etc.

• Birthday Interview Questions

You can do this for the first birthday and continue on every year. If you will be doing this birthday family tradition annually, grab a larger plastic container.

We also have a time capsule for the Last Day of School. This include a list of questions for your child to fill out year after year. Add to a binder or a memory box and see how your child has changed. Start the tradition in Pre-K or start any year. The Last Day of School Time Capsule Set goes from Pre-K until 12th grade.

Last Day of School Time Capsule Printables

Birthday Bucket List

Your child will love this Birthday Bucket List printable. Download and use it on your child’s birthday week or during the day. Enjoy activities like having a dance party, trying a new restaurant, completing a puzzle, baking cookies, watching a movie, playing tourist in your own town and more.

Birthday Bucket List Printable

Birthday Scavenger Hunt

Part of our favorite bucket list items are going on a Birthday Treasure hunt. These 20 Birthday Scavenger Hunt Riddles for home can be personalized to your situation. Omit clues that do not fit your situation, order in the way you want.

Birthday Scavenger Hunt Clues & Riddles

Birthday Interview Questions Printables

Using a birthday time capsule, make sure to add your Birthday Interview Questionnaire.  Every year give your child a birthday quiz to see how they have changed and evolved. I love that this birthday interview includes a space for a birthday photo. Such a great visual way to see how a child has grown.

Birthday Interview Questions

• What makes you happy?

• What makes you sad?

• Who is your best friend?

• What do you like to learn?

• Where do you want to travel?

• What is one thing you are good at?

• What is your one wish?

• What do you want to be when you grow up?

• Tell me your favorite…?

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Our Pinterest community and I would love to see how this worked out for you. Share your annual family tradition – birthday interview questions. I would love to see how your store or time capsule these questionnaires.  Leave a comment and/or add a photo here on Pinterest!

Check out these Surprise Birthday Party Ideas and Hacks. Pin to Pinterest.

If you are always up for a celebration, celebrate every six months. Look at these Half Birthday Party Ideas (for kids and adults!) Pin to Pinterest.

WHAT’S TRENDING? Take your kids on a HALLOWEEN SCAVENGER HUNT for candy or fun non-spooky goodies.


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